Skillet Pasta with Spinach and Burrata
Skillet Pasta with Spinach and Burrata
This skillet pasta is sure to be something you'll be talking about for months, if not years, to come! The melted burrata on top is key, but you can get as creative as you want to with this one-pot pasta dish and add your own touch!
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups torn spinach leaves
- 4 cups cooked pasta
- 2 cups tomato sauce of choice, warmed
- 1/2 cup burrata cheese, sliced
- A dozen or so basil leaves
Directions
- Step 1 Cook your pasta in boiling salted water to al dente, as directed on the box. Drain and then coat with olive oil. Return to the pot and toss with pasta sauce.
- Step 2 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place a large cast-iron skillet on the stove, over medium heat. Add olive oil and garlic. Sauté the garlic until golden, 2-3 minutes.
- Step 3 Add cooked pasta, sauce and spinach leaves to the skillet. Stir to combine until spinach is wilted.
- Step 4 Top the pasta with sliced burrata cheese and basil leaves, then place in the oven to bake for 10-12 minutes, ideally until the cheese starts to bubble.
- Step 5 Serve warm with Parmesan cheese and extra sauce. We also love to add a dash of red chili flakes to ours!
Believe it or not, this is a recipe I totally and completely winged. Aren’t those the best?! It was the middle of our epic March Nor’easter and I knew that whatever I was going to make that night had to be sourced from my very own pantry (braving the roads was not an option!). Thankfully, we always keep a good stockpile of pasta on hand, so no matter what – we’ll never go hungry. Even if the power goes out, you can still boil water for pasta!
I will admit that the inspiration for this dish did actually start a few weeks back when I picked up a box of this incredible Campanelle (aka gigli) pasta, at TJ Maxx of all places! The rainbow colors caught my eye immediately and I just knew I had to do something truly spectacular with this pasta. So I decided this dish would be centered around the pasta and the rest I had to create on the fly.
I wanted to keep it as easy as possible, since I didn’t really know what the night held in store. Almost all of my other friends had already lost power, so I felt like I was cooking on borrowed time here. So I turned to my trusty cast-iron skillet, knowing a “one-pot” meal was the way to go.
You can be as creative – or as simple – as you want to with this dish; I’ve left it up to you for that very reason!! Pick any “short” pasta you want (think ziti, penne, or farfalle) and pair it with any jar of pasta sauce (unless you want to make your own, or make mine!). On this particular occasion, since I had still had some of my incredible Slow Cooker Pork Bolognese left over, I figured that would be a great sauce to substitute. But, this step is totally up to you. You can use any pasta sauce that strikes your fancy – vodka, marinara, even Alfredo!
I encourage you to get as creative as you want with this dish. Once you’ve picked the pasta and sauce, just toss it with some spinach, top with some burrata and bake. When you think about it, that’s actually only 4 ingredients! Talk about a lifesaver!
